Title :
One year with an iPSC/860
Author_Institution :
NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
fDate :
Feb. 25 1991-March 1 1991
Abstract :
The author describes experiences over the past year with the Intel iPSC/860, a distributed memory MIMD parallel computer based on the Intel i860 floating point processor. Attention is given to the system at NASA Ames Research Center, which has 128 node and a theoretical peak performance of over 7 GFLOPS. System stability, computer performance measured by the NAS (Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation) kernels, and results from a two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics application are discussed.<>
Keywords :
aerospace computing; microprocessor chips; parallel machines; performance evaluation; 7 GFLOPS; Intel i860 floating point processor; NAS; NASA Ames; computational fluid dynamics; computer performance; distributed memory MIMD parallel computer; iPSC/860; stability; Aerodynamics; Computational modeling; Computer performance; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Kernel; NASA; Numerical simulation; Stability;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '91. Digest of Papers
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2134-6
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1991.128819
